论语言的起源

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Herder wrote the treatise in Strasbourg late in 1770 for a prize question of the Berlin Academy on whether humans, left to their natural faculties, could have invented language. It won the prize in 1771 and was published in 1772. Herder rejects both a divine origin, as defended by Johann Peter Süßmilch, and the derivation of language from animal cries. Humans lack the sure instincts of animals but have “Besonnenheit”, a reflective awareness that lets them single out a distinguishing mark: a sheep is recognised by its bleating, and this mark is already a word. The second part asks how nature and society shaped the development of languages.

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